Schema Documentation - Book Profile
version 1.0

The head element

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The head element contains meta information about the complete or partial document contained in the enclosing document .

The meta information in the head element is not document content in the context of Z39.98-AI documents, but may be used for display and other purposes when rendering documents into alternate formats.

Refer to Document metadata for the normative specification of required metadata in head.

Usage Example

        
<head>
    <meta rel="z3998:profile" resource="http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/auth/profiles/book/1.0">
        <meta property="z3998:name" content="book" />
        <meta property="z3998:version" content="1.0" />
    </meta>
    <meta rel="z3998:rdfa-context" resource="http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/vocab/context/default/" />
    <meta property="dc:identifier" content="int.daisy.book.12345" />
    <meta property="dc:publisher" content="DAISY Consortium" />
    <meta property="dc:date" content="2012-07-27T18:50:05Z" />
</head>

Allowed parents

document

Allowed children

This element must not contain text.

This element may contain the following children: definition, description, expansion, ssml:lexicon, meta and xforms:model

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @sel:selid, @ssml:onlangfailure, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
one or more of
any of the 6 elements: definition, description, expansion, meta, ssml:lexicon and xforms:model
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirements:
  • The head element must include a meta element identifying the Z39.98-AI profile the document conforms to (z3998:profile).
  • The document must not include more than one meta element identifying a Z39.98-AI profile.
  • A meta element containing the profile name must be specified (z3998:name).
  • A meta element containing the profile version must be specified (z3998:version).
  • Every feature must have its name specified (z3998:name).
  • Every feature must have its version specified (z3998:version).
  • The head element must include a meta element with a unique identifier (dc:identifier).
  • The head element must include a meta element identifying the document publisher (dc:publisher).
  • The head element must include a meta element indicating the document modification date (dc:date).
  • The head element must include only a single dc:date property.
  • The dc:date property must be of the form CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
Such requirements take precedence over any conflicting statements in the content model or in the lists above of allowed children and parents.

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/